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A Further Update and Improvement to the Weekly Mythic Keystone

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After some community outcry over the new changes coming to keystone next week, Blizzard have detailed a new addition to patch 9.0.5, aimed at improving the weekly Mythic+ keystone generated. Players will be getting their first weekly keystone at the same level of the highest completed key from the previous week! Check out the full and detailed explanation:

Blizzard LogoWeekly Mythic Keystones (source)

One of our goals in 9.0.5 has been to address a situation we introduced in Shadowlands with Mythic Keystones never de-leveling. We received a great deal of feedback on our planned adjustment, which is currently outlined in the 9.0.5 patch notes. With this proposed change, we would reintroduce an awkward dynamic where it wouldn’t be possible to sustain running a single Mythic Keystone dungeon per week, even if you always cleared the dungeon in time, because decay would necessitate re-leveling your keys every other week.

When we created the original logic for Mythic Keystones in 2016, we wanted to make sure that players were getting Keystones that appropriately suited their proficiency in Mythic Keystone dungeons, and we wanted to reinforce the importance of clean and well-executed dungeon runs. Having Keystones decay from one week to the next accomplished both of those goals. However, in Shadowlands, we introduced the Great Vault and more Season-driven tracking of performance in Mythic Keystone dungeons, and we unintentionally disabled the logic for de-leveling Keystones, but the reasons for the original design still apply.

We feel that the game should compensate players who consistently succeed at a certain difficulty by giving them keys that start at that level the following week, so we’re working on an update to 9.0.5 that should alleviate that concern while still satisfying the goals of the original system:

  • In a given week, if you finish a Mythic Keystone dungeon in time, the next week’s Great Vault will contain a Keystone of that same level.

So, for example, if your highest Mythic Keystone completion during week one is a +15 that you completed in time, you will get another +15 Keystone from the Great Vault to start week two. If you run that +15 during week two and fail to meet the timer, however, and complete no other +15 (or higher) Mythic Keystone dungeons the rest of week two, you will receive a +14 Keystone from the Great Vault to start week three.

Thank you for your feedback and understanding.

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45 minutes ago, Andelai said:

Now that sounds completely reasonable. 

I know, right? It's like who are you and what have you done with the WoW devs? 🤣

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How many people *really* care about this though? I feel like most of the "outcry" is a few addicts standing in the corner with their heads between their hands yelling NOO NOO NOOOOOOO...

 

*shrug*

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3 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

How many people *really* care about this though? I feel like most of the "outcry" is a few addicts standing in the corner with their heads between their hands yelling NOO NOO NOOOOOOO...

 

*shrug*

Could just be a vocal minority, but looking at Reddit and WoWhead, quite a few.

Of the 3 systems, this is the fairest and makes the most sense, I like it. 

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